Why I Like Obsidian

Note Taking Task Management Todos

Logseq Landing Page
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Logseq

Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Knowledge Base 280 social mentions
Todo.txt Landing Page
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Todo.txt

Track your tasks and projects in a plain text file, todo.txt. A todo.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Task Management #Todos #Project Management 37 social mentions
Dynalist Landing Page

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Dynalist

Dynalist is a web app that lets you break down and organize your thoughts in the format of lists.

This one? https://dynalist.io/ Looks like it's still alive and kicking. I guess you're probably upset by a lack of updates or something - luckily upgrading to a paid plan would be a good way to incentivize whoever is developing it to continue working on it, at least at the margin.

#Note Taking #Project Management #Task Management 24 social mentions
Anytype.io Landing Page
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Anytype.io

Anytype is a next generation software that breaks down barriers between applications, gives back privacy and data ownership to users.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Tried Zettlr a week ago, same result. Somehow I seem nobody noticed anytype - https://anytype.io/.

#Task Management #Personal Notes #Bookmarks 53 social mentions
Obsidian Canvas Landing Page

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Obsidian Canvas

An infinite space to visualize and make sense of your ideas.

Obsidian add a Canvas document type in the last year that you may be interested in. https://obsidian.md/canvas.

#Mac App #Productivity #Note Taking 32 social mentions
Trilium Notes Landing Page
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Trilium Notes

Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Tried Obsidian for a while, loved a lot about it, but....mmm. Obsidian out of the box is a bit limited; plugins are great and add tons of features, but then you start hitting issues with plugin maintainers abandoning plugins you rely on, or needing to make a decision between three different plugins that all do the same thing slightly different. Depending on your use case and expectations that may not be a big deal, but I really missed not having what I personally saw as core features not being officially supported. (Also, FWIW, the sync service is a bit pricy for what it is. I get that it's how they're trying to monetise it, but...I would have preferred another pricing model, even if the total cost was just as high.) I've personally switched to Trilium Notes which I'm finding nicer. One element I particularly like is that it has first class suport for notes being able to exist at multiple places in a tree simultaneously. I know it's a very personal thing, but for me personally being able to file notes in multiple locations "clicks" in a way that tags didn't. Trilium Notes: https://github.com/zadam/trilium.

#Note Taking #Notes #Todos 113 social mentions
Foam Landing Page
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Foam

Personal knowledge management and sharing on VSCode & GitHub
Pricing:
- Open Source
You can also use Foam, a FOSS VSCode extension that is compatible with the basic markdown files from Obsidian. You can just open your vault in it and it will probably work if you're not using the fancy features in Obsidian. https://foambubble.github.io/foam/.

#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 45 social mentions
NotePlan Landing Page
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NotePlan

Make plans inside an individual markdown note for every day in your calendar. Use it as a journal for your daily tasks and plan todos in advance. For Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I tried obsidian but felt it had too many gears and knobs and spent too many times fiddling with them. I fell back on this app which is based on local markdown storage but takes it up a notch. https://noteplan.co The fact that everything is in plain text files on my computer is very important for me and future proofed.

#Note Taking #Productivity #Todos 29 social mentions